8(1)Section 7 (confirmation by United Kingdom court of provisional maintenance order made in reciprocating country) shall be amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (2)(i), for the words “any such defence as he might have raised” there shall be substituted “ any grounds on which he might have opposed the making of the order ”.
(3)In subsection (3), for the words from “raised a defence” to the end there shall be substituted “ opposed the making of the order on any of those grounds. ”.
(4)In subsection (4), for the words “the court” there shall be substituted “ a magistrates’ court in Northern Ireland ”.
(5)In subsection (6), for the words “a summons to appear in” there shall be substituted “ notice of ”.
(6)After subsection (7) there shall be added—
“(8)In the application of this section to Northern Ireland—
(a)in subsection (2)(i), for the words from “any grounds” to “making of the order” there shall be substituted “any such defence as he might have raised”,
(b)in subsection (3), for the words from “opposed the making” to the end there shall be substituted “raised a defence on any of those grounds in the proceedings in which the order was made.”, and
(c)in subsection (6), for the words “notice of” there shall be substituted “a summons to appear in”.”